Plugins For Your Site
We do not specifically endorse any of the plugins listed here but offer them as tools for you to test and use in your own accessible WordPress site.
- WP Accessibility — provides features that fix accessibility issues in your site.
- Accessibility Widget — add a sidebar widget to change text size in your site.
- Zoom — enable site visitors to resize the predefined areas of your site.
- Accessible External Text Links – display an image to warn visitors that a link will open in a new window.
- Accessible Tag Cloud — a replacement for the default tag cloud that includes text-based indication of the tag’s size.
- Accessibility Language — add language-tags via the WordPress Visual Editor to support the pronunciation of foreign text.
Development Tools
Building a new theme or plugin? Perhaps some of these tools can help you to create a more accessible resource.
Color Issues
- Color Contrast Analyser (Windows) — check foreground/background contrast levels and preview designs as they might be seen by color blind users.
- Sim Daltonism — a color blindness simulator for Mac OS X.
- Colorblind Web Page Filter — apply a filter to a web page.
- Vischeck — see how pages & images look to color blind users.
- ContrastA (Flash) — find accessible color combinations.
- Color Palette Accessibility Evaluator — analyze color combinations for conformance to accessibility guidelines.
Toolbars
- WAVE — run the WAVE accessibility evaluation tool within Firefox.
- Firefox Accessibility Extension — check the use of structural markup in a page.
Desktop Validators
- Total Validator — an (X)HTML validator, an accessibility validator, a spell checker, and a broken links checker all rolled into one tool. Free & commercial versions available.
Nelson 1:25 pm on January 10, 2013 Permalink |
Awesome tools you have listed. Another you may be interested in is at wave.webaim.org.
From this website, you can check a web address for accessibility issues, and/or download a toolbar for Firefox that lets you check accessibility on a per-page basis.
I depend on this tool heavily, and it is a huge time-saver for spelling out exact accessibility errors.
esmi 2:11 pm on January 10, 2013 Permalink |
I did think about linking to some accessibility validators but I’m a little concerned that using these without some sort of experience could do more damage than good. Many recommend tabindexing or accesskeys, for example — both of which should be avoided.
Nelson 2:13 pm on January 10, 2013 Permalink |
What a timely response! I’ve been wondering about tabindexing lately, and have been confused about its accessibility. Thanks, esmi, and if you have any recommended follow-up reading I can do on this, it would be appreciated.
Mike 3:50 pm on January 10, 2013 Permalink |
I use the following plugins for FF: Accessibiilty http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/, Juicy Studio Accesibility plugin http://juicystudio.com/, WCAG contrast checker http://www.niquelao.net/wcag_contrast_checker/.